Glenn Miller wrote:

>Beethoven, my favorite composer is now deaf, getting older
>(by those standards), does he have it in him to produce masterworks in
>those few years, to consider over the younger Schubert?

He was working on a 10th.  The performing version I have heard sounds
rather mundane, after the preceding 9, but after all this was just a
sketch, and he probably would have done a lot more with it.  On the other
hand, could it be that his fount of inspiration was finally starting to
dry up?

Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]